Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 2 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 3 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 4 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 5 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 6 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 7 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 8 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 9 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 10 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 11 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 12 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |
| 13 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 14 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 15 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 16 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 17 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 18 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
| 19 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 20 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |